Khadijah Queen
Khadijah Queen was born near Detroit and raised in Southern California. A Cave Canem Fellow and three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, she holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles. Her debut poetry collection, Conduit, was published in 2008 under the Black Goat imprint at Akashic Books. Individual poems appear in numerous journals and anthologies including PMS: Poemmemoirstory, The Drunken Boat, /nor and Powder: Writing by Women in the Ranks from Vietnam to Iraq (Kore Press 2008). A chapbook, No Isla Encanta (2007), is available from dancing girl press. Khadijah has performed and exhibited internationally and curates an annual multi-genre reading series, Courting Risk, at Macaulay Honors College in New York City. Currently, she is completing a second book of poetry and collaborating on a libretto incorporating video, music, dance and performance art. She is a graduate fellow in art studio with a focus on performance and installation at University of South Florida.
